#mysterious

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#book #business #good #hard #kind

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#given #might #mysterious #point #really

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. ↗

— John Hines

#death #engage #enter #fact #inescapable

I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#attracted #because #i #i think #know

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. “Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?” “Yes!” whispered all the children. “Let’s! ↗

— Enid Blyton

#children #island #lonely #mysterious #running-away

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#been #cheese #mysteriously #poets #silent

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#entity #microsoft #mysterious #pc #put

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ↗

— John Fowles

#i #me #metaphysical #move #mysterious

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#governed #impossible #laws #less #more

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#board #called #deeper #develop #greater